Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-19
DEATH In THE WATER.
Is the Element we Drink Decimat-
ing the People?
How a Universal Menace to Health
Nay he Disnrmed

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Way bf DiSafmeo'
A few years ago the people in a certain
section in one of the leading cities of the
state were prostrated with a malignant
disease, and upon Investigation it was
found that only those who used water
from famous old we'll were the victims.
Professor S. A. baltimore, analyst of
the New York State Board of Health,
upon analyzing water from this well,
found it more deadly than the city sew
age!
The filling I'D of the old well stopped
the ravages of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
large building. stratum of dark col>
ored earth running from near the surface
to hard pan. There it took another
course toward well near at hand. The
water from this well had for years been
tainted with the DRAWINGS from reeeiv-
ing vault, the persola:ions of which had
discolored the earth!
Terrible
A similisr condition of things exists IN
every village and city where well water
is used, and though the filtering which
the fluids receive in passing through the
earth may give them clear appearance,
vet the poison and disease remains,
| though the water may look never SO
clear.
1t IS still worse with the farmer, for
the drainage from the barn yard and the
slops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family well
The same condition of things exists in
our large cities, whose water supplies
are rivers fed by little streams that carry
off the filth aud drainage from houses
| This "water" is eventually drunk by rich
and poor alike with great evil
Some cautious people resort to the
filter for purifying this water, but ever
the filter does not remove this poison
for water of the most deadly character
may pass through this filter aud become
clear, yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods, fol
even though they do not take out all tho
lmpurity, they soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human kidney:
act as filter for the blood, and if they
are filled up with impurities and become
foul, like the filter, all the blood to the
system conrslng through them becomes
bad. for 1t is now conceded fact tina
the kidneys are the chief means whereby
the blood is purified. These organs ar,
filed with thousands of hair like tube
which drain the impurities from the
blood, as the sewer pipes drain impuritie
from our houses.
If a sewer pipe breaks under the house
the sewerage escapes into the earth an
fills the house with poisonous gas; so
any of the thousand and one little hair
like sewer tubes of the kidneys brea
down, the entire body is affected by thl
awful poison.
It is scientific fact that the kidney
have few nerves of sensation; and, con
seQuently, disease may exist in these or
gans for long time and not be suspect
ed by the individual. 1t is impossible t
filter or take the death out Of the bloo
when the least derangemen exists i
these organs. and if the blood is no
filtered then the uric acid, or kidne
poison, removable only by Warmers saf
cure, accumulates in the system an
attacks any organ producing nine out O
ten ailments, just as sewer gas and ba
drainage produce so many fatal dlsor
ders.
Kidney disease may be known to exis
if there is any marked departure fror
ordinary health without apparent known
cause, it should he understood by a.
that the greatest peril exists, and is inten
sified, if there is the least neglect to trea
1t promptly with that great specific
r warmers safe cure, remedy that ha
, received the highest recognition by scien
titic men who have thoroughly inyesti
gated the character of kidney derange
ments.
They NAV not tell us that the cause @
SO many diseases In this organ is the i'm
pure water or any other one thing, bu
this poisonous water with its impuritie
coursing constantly through these delicat
organs undoubtedly does produce muc
of the decay and disease which eventual
this disease. alike among the drinkin
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